Word: sums
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Balancing Budgets. In sum, while the dam represents a considerable success for Russia, Khrushchev fared less well with his personal and political appeals in Egypt. At week's end the sight of ripe Egyptian wheat roused him to his old antics as he toured the Liberation province land-reclamation project. He sickled and tasted some of the grain ("a bit dry"), criticized the housing facilities for peasants ("too costly"), later congratulated winners of a skeet-shooting contest. Between outings, Nikita retired to rest and continue private talks with Nasser...
Fortunes from Fractions. The men who do know the business turn hand some profits-and sometimes incur huge losses-by dealing in tiny fractions. Fluctuations in prices are as small as one sixty-fourth of 1 %, but that can add up to quite a sum in a market in which the U.S. Treasury every Monday auctions off about $3 billion worth of short-term bills to refinance the nation's debt. These bills go to the highest bidding bond dealers, who then sell them for whatever price they can get from banks, corporations and speculators...
Some churches-notably the Methodists and United Presbyterians-concede that there is an inequity in the laws and either pay their full taxes or a sum equivalent to levies from which they are exempt. But a majority of the clergy probably agree with Mrs. Murray's Baltimore opponents, who are determined to battle her up to the Supreme Court over what one Roman Catholic lawyer sees as "the beginning of a hostile interpretation of the First Amendment." Says he: "As a person, Mrs. Murray is not important. But what she's trying to do is important...
...hard to imagine that a magnate of Goergen's stripe could be involved in fraud, especially since defense contracts represent only 15% of Henschel's business. "It would hardly seem worthwhile for a company as large and important as Henschel to cheat for such a minor sum," said a Bonn corporate lawyer. Many Germans were jarred, too, by the blunt manner of Goergen's arrest and imprisonment, especially since no charge was filed against him. The uneasiness about how he was being treated was heightened last week when he suffered a heart attack in his cell...
...sum, the Greeks have a sound point when they argue that the Turkish minority is blocking the democratic principle of majority rule. But the Turks are equally convincing when they contend that the Greeks under Makarios have abused their majority power, and are increasingly unwilling to let the Turks survive on the island. To a degree, the antagonists are victims of history. Yet the world, which these days demands-and gets-fairly rational behavior from the hostile big powers, has a right to ask a modicum of reason from both sides in this vicious little squabble...